The project elaborates on the notions of accommodation, pretence, linguistic etiolation, and expressive communication within an Austin-inspired model of speech act dynamics, and uses the resulting framework to account for insinuation and other forms of non-overt speech.
I carried out this project at the University of Cambridge, both at the Faculty of Philosophy, where I served as an Academic Visitor, and at Clare Hall College, where I was a Visiting Fellow, during the period from 1 October 2023 to 31 July 2024.
The results of this project were presented in the form of seminar and workshop presentations, a research paper, work-in-progress drafts, and a book proposal entitled Unspoken Meanings: An Essay on Insinuation and Other Forms of Non-Overt Speech.
Research paper
- Witek, M., Gricean insinuation and the fake one-way mirror effect, Synthese, 204, 96, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04699-5
Seminar and workshop presentations
- Insinuation as a speech act, On-line Seminar ‘Ethotic Thursdays, The New Ethos Laboratory, 23 November, 2023;
- The communicative nature and the off-record status of insinuation, Cambridge Linguistic Forum, University of Cambridge, 25 January, 2024;
- Insinuation and the Fake One-Way Mirror Effect, History and Philosophy of Science Special Interest Group, Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, 5 March, 2024;
- Implicatures and Conventions in Insinuation. An Austinian Approach, Speech and Normativity Workshop, Cambridge, 15-16 May, 2024.